The Jew of Malta: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions, Band 0) - Softcover

Marlowe, Christopher

 
9780393643350: The Jew of Malta: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions, Band 0)

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The 1633 quarto (Q) text—the only authoritative version—with modernized spelling and detailed explanatory annotations.An unusually rich selection of sixteenth- and seventeenth century contexts, thematically organized to promote classroom discussion. Topics include “Theater and Marlowe,” “Machiavelli and Mediterranean Identities,” and “Ideas of the Jew.”Twenty-eight critical interpretations spanning three centuries, including several considerations of The Jew of Malta in performance and new scholarly perspectives on text and culture.Editorial prefaces and a Textual Notes section.Six illustrations and one map.A chronology and a selected bibliography. Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts, and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

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LLOYD EDWARD KERMODE is Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach. He edited Three Renaissance Usury Plays for the Revels Companion series (2009) and coedited Tudor Drama before Shakespeare (2004) and the collection "Space and Place in Early Modern Drama" for the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013). He is the author of Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama (2009), and of a number of essays on cultural identity in literature and on the theory and experience of space in early modern England.

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